burdock
pronunciation
How to pronounce burdock in British English:
UK [ˈbɜ:dɒk]
How to pronounce burdock in American English:
US [ˈbɜrdɑk]
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- Noun:
- any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs
Word Origin
- burdock (n.)
- coarse, weedy plant, 1590s, from bur + dock (n.3).
Example
- 1. Pollution-free production technique for spring sow burdock in open-field .
- 2. Salted lotus root , salted carrot , salted burdock and boiled and fresh fruit and vegetable .
- 3. A rather fanciful legend has it that dandelion and burdock has been drank in britain since the 13th century , after thomas aquinas , on a countryside walk , prayed to god for inspiration and brewed a drink from the first two plants he saw .
- 4. In reply to her mother 's command and entreaty that she would behave more decorously , little pearl paused to gather the prickly burrs from a tall burdock which grew beside the tomb .
- 5. The economy of characteristic agricultural product represented by the burdock , the garlic and 725 apples greatly changed the economy of local countryside , especially in border areas of feng county and pei county , the northwest of jiangshu province .